With Android 4.4.1's release earlier today, many of you have been asking about and expecting the corresponding factory images, especially for devices without OTAs at this point: the 2012 Nexus 7s, the Wi-Fi 2013 Nexus 7, and the Nexus 10. Factory images can help recover soft-bricked Nexus devices, update the OS or its parts without losing data in case an OTA doesn't want to apply, or go back to stock after trying a custom ROM.

Unfortunately, the images and binaries are not planned until next week, according to a message by one of Google's release engineers Conley Owens. In a short post accompanying the AOSP source code drop, Conley writes: